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The Strategic Ripples of China’s Mega-Dam for Bangladesh
August 7th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how for Bangladesh, far downstream yet acutely affected, the Medog Hydropower Station highlights its struggles to ensure equitable water-sharing: When Chinese Premier Li Qiang broke ground on the world’s most ambitious dam – the Medog Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet – global headlines fixated on […]
Read more »Data and Drought: The U.S. West’s Data Centers Suck Water and Power
August 1st, 2025
Via High Country News, a report on how – from simple searches to chatGPT – the big digital buildup in the U.S. west threatens the grid and water supplies: This May, STaX Capital Partners applied for a permit to install turbines fueled by methane from oil wells on Alaska’s North Slope. The temporary facilities would […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Super Dam – An Ecological and Geopolitical Time Bomb
August 1st, 2025
Via Stagecoach and Statecraft, commentary on how China’s super-dam is an ecological and geopolitical time bomb: China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human history — although satellite imagery suggests the groundwork […]
Read more »Water Wars: A Historic Agreement Between Mexico and US is Ramping up Border Tension
July 31st, 2025
Via The Conversation, a look at how a historic water sharing agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension: As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts, Mexico […]
Read more »Caspian Sea Level Fallen So Much that Russia and Kazakhstan To Dredge a Channel to Offshore Wells
July 27th, 2025
The water level of the Caspian Sea has fallen to its lowest level in recorded history, restricting the ability of ships to pass through former channels, especially in the sea’s northern portions. In response, Russia and Kazakhstan have announced plans to dredge a channel through increasingly shallow waters to allow their ships to pass. Russia’s […]
Read more »The Mekong Dam Monitor Tracks a River Under Pressure
July 24th, 2025
Via New Security Beat, a report on how a new Mekong dam monitor can track a river under pressure: The Mekong River’s seasonal floods nurture the world’s most productive inland fishery and irrigate rice paddies that feed millions. Approximately 70 million people live in the lower Mekong Basin, and 75% of them depend on fishing and […]
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